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US says UFO sightings likely secret military tests (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[-] ki77erb@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If an advanced civilization developed the technology for interstellar travel, and came all this way to earth, I suspect one of 2 things will happen. Either their tech is so advanced that we won't even detect them, or they show up ready to communicate or destroy us.

I can't see them clumsily flying around, getting seen and whooshing off like some dumb teenagers playing ding-dong-ditch.

[-] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 9 months ago

I could see the studying us like we study animals

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I mean if you look at it like *observe and don't interact" then it makes a lot of sense why the craft keep going into the ocean. It's the best place on earth to hide and you can get anywhere on the planet that way.

[-] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can see humanity as being an entertaining sitcom or something to an advanced spacefaring race. O ho ho ho they are so divided and primitive!

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

They travel thousands of light years just to pick up some ding dong and toss him back. I just picture a grey little alien dropping off a hillbilly after a solid butt probin' with a finger over his mouth uttering, "Shhhh! No one will believe you."

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

People travel to the other side of the planet to study ants.

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Good point. I now believe in aliens.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Also: for a civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel to want to destroy us is unlikely. The universe is filled with resources. We pose no threat and don't really have anything special.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Unless they don't give a fuck if we see them.

[-] OtisRamflow@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

I would guess there are dumb alien teenagers as well.

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Student driver

[-] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Safaris dont give a shift if the animals in the wild see them

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Ukraine doesn't care if Russians see their drones. Why would aliens? If ufos are alien craft there's zero chance there's an alien in there.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't get why everyone was always assuming 'alien' vs "time travelers."

The interest in Earth, general similarity to our own tech but more advanced, coupled with non-intervention makes a lot more sense under those conditions than aliens.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'm starting to think they're inter dimensional, not extra terrestrial. Google what would a human in 4d look like to us, and it sounds just like the descriptions of angels in the Bible. Our brain just glitching out and seeing them as a mess of eyeballs and appendages. They can pop in and out of our reality, seemingly out of nowhere.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago

It amuses me that they get caught on VHS flying around clumsily, but no one's ever seen anything out in space. How did they get into the atmosphere? Not one telescope on the planet can spot ships flying towards the planet

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Actually there have been numerous videos of unknown flying objects in space. Where did you get the idea that there were none?

[-] bahbah23@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

VHS is video.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago

Other than Oummammua (or however it's spelled) name one that even remotely resembles a ufo

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Well I certainly don't know what their names are, but here is a video from NASA that shows a UFO in space.

https://youtu.be/0LS9z7n5iHU

[-] z500@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can believe it when we can barely manage to spot an asteroid heading in our direction before it's basically whizzing past us

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago

Do you mean the 34 thousand plus near earth objects that NASA monitors every day? Those "barely managed to spot"?

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Uhh you realize they can’t catch EVERYTHING… yeah?

Since I know you’ll just claim otherwise

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Never said they track everything.
There's no aliens buzzing around though.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You implied we could see everything with telescopes, we can’t even see everything with the tech nasa employs.

Maybe, maybe not, doesn’t change the fact that we’ve missed lots of stuff that’s hit or missed earth despite your asinine claim we don’t miss anything.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I never said we don't miss anything. How stupid are you? If all you want to do is nitpick bullshit go bother someone else.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

You’re relying on the absence evidence to say something isn’t possible.

I provided proof that we don’t see everything, which is proof that it’s not impossible.

It may be nitpicking, but it’s the words you said. Don’t want to be corrected, don’t say incorrect shit dude lmfao.

[-] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago

No duh?

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago

A reminder that mach 3.5 jet aircraft were flying around in the mid 60s before we had computer chips.

That was 60 years ago now. and 60 years before that, the airplane had only been around a year or so.

We would not believe the prototype shit that is flying around today.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

once you reach 'unmanned' craft, the capabilities can get silly. the pilot being able to function in the G forces used to be a major limiting factor. remote-control meant limiting capabilities to what a human could comprehend. now we're well past that too.

[-] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

funny how maga never seems to bring that little idea up lmao "hey everyone look over here at my left hand" while the right hand rapes and plunders our democracy

[-] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

Breaking story?

[-] MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

The people accused of doing illegal things and hiding it from Congress investigated themselves and announced today they didnt do anything wrong.

[-] K3zi4@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

So they'll be charging Grusch with perjury and lying to Congress then?

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Would be funny if they tried, considering all the stuff that he knows and that he is legally represented by the former Director of National Intelligence.

[-] rutellthesinful@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

it's only perjury if you know that it's false

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

So tell me more aboot, (adjusts American mustache) -I mean about those secret military tests that were definitely not UFOs...

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